Carer program: Collaborative Care Skills

About this event

Learn new skills to help your loved one overcome an eating disorder.

Caring for a person with an eating disorder is a long-term commitment that requires unique skills. Yet friends and families are often expected to provide safe and supportive care without any training and/or support for their experience of caring.

Based on the new Maudsley Approach, Butterfly’s Collaborative Care Skills Workshop offers evidence-based training in motivational interviewing and effective communication techniques to aid in the recovery from a loved one’s eating disorder. Carers will also be provided with support around self-care and wellbeing to reduce psychological distress, burden, expressed emotion, and boundaries in level of involvement.

Our trained peer facilitators will draw on the wisdom of their lived experience to encourage carers in their vital role of caring for a loved one, friend or family member toward wellness and hope in their recovery.

With evidence-based strategies, this virtual workshop will help you to:

• Understand how an eating disorder may impact your loved one and the affect this condition can have on behaviour
• Care for yourself and avoid burnout
• Identify your caring style and how you can best lean into it when supporting your loved one
• Manage difficult behaviours and utilise skills to encourage your loved one toward recovery
• Find a community with others who are going through a similar experience to you.

Where: ONLINE (ZOOM)
Dates: Two Saturdays per workshop

June 17th & June 24th (registration closes June 12th)
July 15th & 22nd (registration closes 10th July)
September 2nd & 9th (registration closes August 28th)
October 14th & 21st (registration closes October 9th)
Time: 8:30 am – 1:30 pm (AEST/AEDT) both days